JP2010154280A - Incoming control server, and, incoming control method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an incoming control server and an incoming control method which allows a user to know data incoming to an incoming terminal at the other communication terminal when the same user utilizes a plurality of communication terminals even while a call incoming terminal is powered off. <P>SOLUTION: When there are data incoming to an incoming terminal 30, an incoming notification section 143 of an incoming control server 10 notifies a terminal 20 to be notified of incoming about the data incoming. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an incoming call control server and an incoming call control method for performing incoming call control when receiving data when the same user uses a plurality of communication terminals.

  In recent years, various types of communication terminals have been developed. For example, mobile phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant) mobile phones that have PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) functions, such as smartphones, personal computers, notebook personal computers (called “notebook PCs”), portable navigation terminals, and notebook PCs are made smaller. UMPC (Ultra Mobile Personal Computer) etc. have no time to enumerate.

  With such an increase in the types of communication terminals, the number of users who use a plurality of communication terminals is increasing, and users who use a plurality of communication terminals often use different communication terminals properly depending on the application. Use of a plurality of communication terminals improves user convenience, but causes the following inconvenience. That is, among a plurality of communication terminals used by the same user, a communication terminal whose power is OFF (off) or a so-called PULL type application that does not have an incoming function and only responds to inquiries, such as voice transmission and e-mail When there is a data transmission (hereinafter collectively referred to as “data incoming”), the user cannot notice the incoming data even if he / she carries a communication terminal that is always on standby such as a mobile phone. .

As an incoming call control technique in which a plurality of communication terminals are linked, for example, there are those described in Patent Documents 1 to 3. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-133620 describes that even if an incoming call is received for any of a plurality of user addresses held by a user, the call is uniformly received by one terminal device.
In Patent Document 2, when a user possesses a host terminal and a portable terminal capable of voice communication, the host terminal is turned off to wait for an incoming call only at the portable terminal, and the portable terminal receives an incoming call. When an occurrence occurs, a ring tone is sounded from the mobile terminal, and when the call button of the host terminal is pressed, the power of the host terminal is turned on so that a call can be started using the host terminal. It is described to be realized.

Further, in Patent Document 3, when one of a plurality of mobile communication terminals is set as an effective terminal, and each mobile communication terminal is not set as an effective terminal, when an external communication is received, It is described that an effective terminal is notified of an incoming call.
JP 2005-57462 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-193697 JP 2008-104067 A

However, in Patent Document 1, since the receiving terminal is changed, there is a problem in the management of the incoming call history and e-mail history, for example. Further, when the changed communication terminal of the destination is not capable of receiving an incoming voice call or electronic mail, it cannot be used.
In order to realize the technique described in Patent Document 2, it is necessary that both the receiving terminal and the host terminal have a voice telephone function, and it is necessary to perform ad hoc communication between the receiving terminal and the host terminal.

Further, in the technique described in Patent Document 3, when a terminal other than the valid terminal receives an incoming call, the terminal other than the valid terminal notifies the valid terminal that the incoming call has been received. If the terminal is powered off, the incoming call cannot be notified.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and when the same user uses a plurality of communication terminals, even if the power of the receiving terminal is OFF, the receiving terminal It is an object of the present invention to provide an incoming call control server and an incoming call control method that allow other communication terminals to know that data has arrived.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the incoming call control server according to claim 1 is an incoming call control server that performs incoming call control when there is a data incoming call to any one of a plurality of communication terminals used by a user. And when there is an incoming data to a certain communication terminal among a plurality of communication terminals used by the user, a predetermined communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user is selected. An incoming call notification means for performing an incoming call notification process for notifying the fact is provided.

  According to the present invention, when the incoming call control server receives a data incoming call to a certain communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user, the other communication determined in advance among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user. In order to perform incoming notification processing for notifying the terminal that data has arrived, even if the power of a certain communication terminal is turned off, the user is notified that the data has been received by a certain communication terminal. It can be known by incoming notification to the terminal.

The incoming call control server according to claim 2 is the terminal status holding means for storing the status of each communication terminal according to claim 1, and the terminal status holding means when there is an incoming data to the certain communication terminal. A receiving terminal state determining unit for determining whether the certain communication terminal is in a state capable of receiving data based on the stored state of the certain communication terminal, wherein the incoming call notifying unit includes the receiving terminal state When the determination means determines that the certain communication terminal is in a state where data cannot be received, the incoming call notification process is performed.
According to the present invention, since the incoming call notification process is performed only when a certain communication terminal is in a state where data cannot be received, the user can use the other communication terminal to indicate in real time that there is an incoming data at a certain communication terminal. It is possible to know that a certain communication terminal is unable to receive data.

An incoming call control server according to claim 3 further comprises user setting information holding means for storing user setting information representing conditions for the incoming call notification processing set by a user according to claim 1 or 2, wherein The notifying means performs the incoming call notification process according to the condition expressed by the user setting information for the certain communication terminal stored in the user setting information holding means when there is an incoming data to the certain communication terminal. It is characterized by that.
According to the present invention, by storing in advance the conditions for incoming notification processing in the user setting information holding means, the user can receive incoming notifications according to desired conditions.

An incoming call control server according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the incoming call control server according to the third aspect, wherein the user setting information includes the type from a data sender, a type of data, a data transmission condition, and a communication terminal used by the sender. And a communication terminal that should be notified that the data has been received when the data transmission condition is satisfied when the data has been received.
According to the present invention, the user setting information holding unit receives the data having the type from the data sender, the data type, the data transmission condition, and the communication terminal used by the data sender. Since it is possible to store information representing a communication terminal that should be notified that data has arrived when the data transmission condition is satisfied, the user can receive an incoming notification under a desired condition. .

The incoming call control server according to claim 5 is characterized in that, in claim 4, the data transmission condition is a condition that a power supply of the certain communication terminal is OFF.
According to the present invention, a user can know from a notification of an incoming call to another communication terminal that a data reception has occurred at a communication terminal when the power of the communication terminal is OFF.

  An incoming call control server according to a sixth aspect of the present invention is the incoming call control server according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, wherein a terminal identifier assigned to the certain communication terminal and a user who uses the certain communication terminal are a predetermined type of communication service. Terminal identifier management means for managing the service unique identifier used when receiving the data, and when there is an incoming data including the service unique identifier as a destination, the data managed by the terminal identifier management means And a transmission destination terminal identifier deriving means for deriving the terminal identifier from the service unique identifier.

  According to the present invention, the incoming call control server derives the terminal identifier from the service unique identifier when there is a data incoming call that includes the service unique identifier as a destination. Therefore, the incoming call control server is provided not only for voice incoming calls but also for various communication services. It can be applied to data arrival to a user unique identifier. In addition, even in the case of a service that does not have an incoming notification means such as a PULL type application service such as an electronic mail, it is possible to notify the user of an incoming call.

The incoming call control server according to claim 7 is capable of responding when receiving a reply indicating that the incoming call notification means can respond to the voice incoming notification in any one of claims 1 to 6. A guidance transmission means for transmitting a guidance for notifying to the originating device and a communication line between the originating device and the certain communication terminal when there is an incoming call response from the certain communication terminal And connecting means for connecting.
According to the present invention, an incoming call control server transmits a guidance to a calling-side device, and a user can operate a certain communication terminal to perform an incoming call response while the guidance is output from the calling-side device. .

An incoming call control server according to an eighth aspect is directed to the communication terminal according to any one of the first to seventh aspects, when a reply not possible to the voice incoming notification by the incoming call notification means is received. It further comprises an answering machine transfer means for transferring an incoming call to an answering machine center having a recording device capable of recording the voice message.
According to the present invention, since the user operates another communication terminal that has received the incoming call notification and sends a reply indicating that the response is impossible, the incoming call control server forwards the incoming call to a certain communication terminal to the answering machine. Convenience increases.

The incoming call control method according to claim 9 is an incoming call control method when there is a data incoming call to any one of a plurality of communication terminals used by a user, and the plurality of communication used by the user When there is an incoming data to a certain communication terminal among the terminals, the incoming call control server notifies the other communication terminal predetermined among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user to that effect. A notification step is provided.
According to the present invention, when the incoming call control server receives a data incoming call to a certain communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user, the other communication determined in advance among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user. In order to perform incoming notification processing for notifying the terminal that data has arrived, even if the power of a certain communication terminal is turned off, the user is notified that the data has been received by a certain communication terminal. It can be known by incoming notification to the terminal.

The incoming call control server according to claim 10, wherein the incoming call notification unit uniquely identifies the other communication terminal in a communication network in which the other communication terminal is located. The terminal identifier is used to perform the incoming call notification process, and the terminal identifier is a common identifier that can uniquely identify the other communication terminal in each of a plurality of communication networks managed by different communication carriers. A terminal identifier is included.
According to the present invention, even when a communication terminal is located in a communication network managed by a different carrier, the incoming call control server can make an incoming call notification using a common terminal identifier.

  The incoming call control server according to claim 11 is capable of receiving data from any of a plurality of applications stored in a communication terminal capable of accessing a plurality of communication networks and having a limited communication network to receive a service. An incoming call control server that performs incoming call control in a case where there is an application that is capable of receiving a service via a predetermined communication network among the plurality of applications via the predetermined communication network An incoming call notification means for notifying a predetermined other application among the plurality of applications via a communication network that can receive a service when the data is received. It is characterized by providing.

  According to the present invention, when an incoming call control server receives data via a predetermined communication network with respect to an application capable of receiving a service via a predetermined communication network, In order to notify other predetermined applications through a communication network in which the other applications can receive the service, even when a certain application does not have an incoming call notification function, the user is predetermined. It is possible to know that a service has been received via the communication network.

An incoming call control server according to a twelfth aspect of the present invention is the incoming call control server according to the eleventh aspect, wherein the incoming call notification means is configured to cause the communication terminal to receive the predetermined communication when there is an incoming data to the certain application via the predetermined communication network. For other applications that can receive a communication service from another communication network via another communication network in which the communication terminal is accessible when the network terminal is not accessible To that effect.
According to the present invention, when a communication terminal is not in a state of being able to access a predetermined communication network and a certain application cannot receive an incoming data, the user receives an incoming service via the predetermined communication network. I can know that.

  According to the present invention, when the incoming call control server receives a data incoming call to a certain communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user, the other communication determined in advance among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user. In order to perform incoming notification processing for notifying the terminal that data has arrived, even if the power of a certain communication terminal is turned off, the user is notified that the data has been received by a certain communication terminal. It can be known by incoming notification to the terminal.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In each drawing referred to in the following description, components equivalent to those in the other drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals.
(System configuration)
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the communication network according to the present embodiment includes an outgoing side device 40 that is a source of data and calls, an incoming terminal 30 that is a destination of data, and incoming control that performs incoming control when receiving data. A server 10 and an incoming call notification target terminal 20 that is a data incoming notification target are provided. The incoming call notification target terminal 20 and the incoming call terminal 30 are various communication terminals used by the same user. Here, the communication terminal used by the user may be a mobile terminal or a smartphone assigned with a user-specific identifier, a personal computer owned by the user, or borrowed from a company. It may be a personal computer that is used. “Data incoming” includes incoming voice calls, incoming e-mails, incoming notification data by application functions performed between a wide range of other users and between users and servers, such as messages between users exchanged by a scheduler or SNS service, etc. included.

(Configuration of incoming call control server)
Next, the configuration of the incoming call control server 10 will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the incoming call control server 10. As shown in the figure, the incoming call control server 10 includes a terminal identifier management DB (database) 11, a terminal state holding DB 12, a user setting information holding DB 13 and a CPU (not shown) provided in a storage device such as a hard disk (not shown). (Central Processing Unit) includes an incoming call notification application unit 14 realized by executing various application programs, and an information transmission / reception unit 15 including a communication interface (not shown).

First, with reference to FIG. 3, each database 11, 12, 13 with which the incoming call control server 10 is provided is demonstrated.
(Terminal identifier management DB)
The terminal identifier management DB 11 is a service unique identifier used when a user using a communication terminal receives provision of a predetermined type of communication service, a telephone number of a main line that becomes a user identifier in a mobile communication network, The terminal identifier assigned to the communication terminal is managed in association with it. FIG. 3A shows an example of data managed by the terminal identifier management DB 11.
Here, the terminal identifier is an identifier assigned to a communication terminal by a mobile communication service provider in order to provide a mobile communication service within the mobile communication network, and corresponds to, for example, an IMUI (solid identification number).
The service unique identifier is, for example, an e-mail address used when using an e-mail service provided by an Internet provider or a handle name used when using a web service such as SNS (social networking service). is there.

(Terminal state maintenance DB)
The terminal state holding DB 12 stores the state of the communication terminal identified by the terminal identifier in association with the terminal identifier. The state of the communication terminal includes, for example, that the power is turned off and connected. The states of these communication terminals are registered based on signals sequentially transmitted from the communication terminals.
FIG. 3B shows an example of data stored in the terminal state holding DB 12.
Based on the state stored in the terminal state holding DB 12, it is possible to determine whether or not the communication terminal specified by the terminal identifier associated with the state is in a state where data can be received. For example, it is possible to determine that data reception is possible when the state is “connected”, and it is possible to determine that data reception is impossible when “power is OFF”.

(User setting information holding DB)
The user setting information holding DB 13 stores user setting information that is set by the user and represents a condition for data incoming notification. The user setting information includes the data sender, the data type, the data transmission condition, and the data transmission condition when the data having the type is received from the communication terminal used by the data sender. Includes information indicating the incoming call notification target terminal 20 that should be notified that the data has been received. As the “data type”, there is a data update notification used by application software such as voice, electronic mail, and scheduler. The “data transmission condition” includes a condition that the power of the receiving terminal 30 is OFF, a condition that the receiving terminal 30 does not have a push-type receiving function, a condition that the receiving terminal 30 is out of service area, and the receiving terminal 30. Is a predetermined type of communication terminal such as a personal computer, and there is a condition that the terminal state of the receiving terminal 30 is arbitrary.

FIG. 3C shows an example of user setting information stored in the user setting information holding DB 13 when the receiving terminal 30 is a personal computer and the incoming notification target terminal 20 is a mobile terminal. As shown in the figure, in the user setting information holding DB 13, an in-network user ID for identifying the receiving terminal 30 and user setting information are stored in association with each other. The upper user setting information is sent to the incoming call notification target terminal 20 when the incoming terminal 30 is powered off when an incoming e-mail is received from the outgoing device 40 used by Mr. A. Indicates that an incoming call notification is performed. Further, when the update notification of the schedule data used by the scheduler held by the calling device 40 installed in the user's company is addressed to the receiving terminal 30, the incoming call notification target terminal regardless of the terminal state of the receiving terminal 30 20 shows that a data incoming notification is performed.
Note that the user setting information is not limited to the above example, and may be information indicating that an incoming notification is not required in the case of a specific sender or a specific type of data incoming, for example.

(Incoming call notification application part)
Next, the incoming call notification application unit 14 shown in FIG. 2 will be described. The incoming call notification application unit 14 includes an incoming call terminal state determination unit 141, a destination terminal identifier derivation unit 142, an incoming call notification unit 143, a guidance transmission unit 144, a connection unit 145, and an answering machine transfer unit 146. Yes.
When there is an incoming data to the receiving terminal 30, the receiving terminal state determination unit 141 acquires the state of the receiving terminal 30 stored in the terminal state holding DB 12, and based on the acquired state, the receiving terminal 30 Determines whether or not data reception is possible. If the acquired state is “power ON” or “connected”, it is determined that data can be received.

The destination terminal identifier deriving unit 142 derives the terminal identifier of the receiving terminal 30 from the service unique identifier based on the data managed by the terminal identifier management DB 11 when there is an incoming data including the service unique identifier as a destination. To do.
The incoming call notification unit 143 indicates that the incoming call notification target terminal 20 has received a data call to the incoming call terminal 30 when there is a data incoming call to the incoming call terminal 30 by voice, vibration function, or screen display. Incoming call notification processing is performed.

  At this time, the incoming call notification unit 143 performs the incoming call notification process only when the incoming terminal state determination unit 141 determines that the incoming terminal 30 is in a state incapable of receiving data. Further, whether the incoming call notification unit 143 needs to perform incoming call notification according to the conditions represented by the user setting information stored in the user setting information holding DB 13 in association with the in-network user ID of the receiving terminal 30. If it is determined that it is necessary to perform incoming call notification, incoming call notification processing is performed. Further, when the incoming call is a service specific identifier as a destination, the incoming call notification unit 143 obtains the terminal identifier derived by the transmission destination terminal identifier deriving unit 142, and uses the obtained terminal identifier as a key to obtain the terminal state Search the holding DB 12 and the like.

When the guidance transmission unit 144 receives a reply from the incoming notification target terminal 20 that it can respond to the voice incoming notification to the incoming notification target terminal 20 by the incoming notification unit 143, for example, A dedicated guidance for notifying that the response is possible, such as “Please wait for a while,” is transmitted to the originating device 40.
The connection unit 145 connects a call line between the calling side device 40 and the receiving terminal 30 when there is an incoming call response from the receiving terminal 30 in response to an incoming call to the receiving terminal 30.

  The answering machine transfer unit 146 receives a reply indicating that the incoming call notification target terminal 20 cannot respond when the incoming call notification unit 143 notifies the incoming call notification target terminal 20 that a voice call has arrived at the incoming call terminal 30. In this case, the incoming call is forwarded to an answering machine (not shown). The answering machine center is a recording device that transmits a guidance to connect to the answering machine 40 to record the voice message from the calling apparatus 40 so that the voice message to the receiving terminal 30 can be recorded. It is an apparatus having.

(Configuration of incoming call notification target terminal)
Next, the configuration of the incoming call notification target terminal 20 will be described. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the incoming call notification target terminal 20. As shown in the figure, the incoming call notification target terminal 20 executes an information transmission / reception unit 24 having a communication interface (not shown) and various application programs stored in a storage device such as a nonvolatile memory by a CPU (not shown). And a screen display unit 22 including a liquid crystal display (not shown), and an operation key (not shown) for performing various operations such as outgoing call, incoming call response, and power ON / OFF. And a terminal operation unit 23.

  The incoming call notification application unit 21 of the incoming call notification target terminal 20 responds to the user when receiving an incoming call notification from the incoming call control server 10 via the information transmitting / receiving unit 24 to notify that the incoming call terminal 30 has been received. A screen for selecting availability is displayed on the screen display unit 22. On the other hand, when the user operates the terminal operation unit 23 and selects response possible, the incoming call notification application unit 21 transmits a notification that response is possible to the incoming call control server 10 via the information transmission / reception unit 24. . On the other hand, when the user selects “response impossible”, an incoming call forwarding process to the answering machine center or a message transmission process to the calling device 40 is performed according to the input operation of the user.

(Configuration of receiving terminal)
The incoming terminal 30 has a hardware configuration substantially similar to that of the incoming call notification target terminal 20, and a general portable terminal such as an incoming voice call, incoming email, various incoming data, etc. is stored in a storage device such as a non-volatile memory. Software for realizing the functions is stored.
(Configuration of originating device)
The calling-side device 40 is a portable terminal or personal computer that can make a voice call or send an e-mail. Note that the originating device 40 notifies that the schedule data used by application software such as a scheduler has been updated, notifies that the product being exhibited in the auction has reached a set price, etc. It may be a server that provides groupware services.

(Incoming call notification processing)
Next, with reference to FIG. 5, the incoming call notification process performed by the incoming call control server 10 when there is a data incoming from the calling device 40 to the receiving terminal 30 will be described.
First, the calling side device 40 performs transmission or data transmission addressed to the receiving terminal 30 (step S101).
The information transmission / reception unit 15 of the incoming call control server 10 receives an incoming signal from the originating device 40. When the service specific identifier is included in the incoming signal, the transmission destination terminal identifier deriving unit 142 refers to the terminal identifier management DB 11 and derives a terminal identifier from the service specific identifier (step S102).

Next, the receiving terminal state determination unit 141 acquires the state of the receiving terminal 30 associated with the terminal identifier and stored in the terminal state holding DB 12, and receives from the calling side device 40 based on the acquired state. It is determined whether the transmitted signal can be transmitted to the receiving terminal 30 (step S103).
If it is determined that transmission is possible, the incoming call control server 10 transmits an incoming signal to the incoming terminal 30 via the information transmitting / receiving unit 15 (step S104).

  On the other hand, when it is determined that transmission is not possible, or when it is determined that transmission is not possible, the incoming call notification application unit 14 of the incoming call control server 10 refers to the user setting information holding DB 13 to obtain user setting information related to incoming call notification. Confirm (step S105). If it is determined whether it is necessary to make an incoming call notification according to the condition represented by the confirmed user setting information, and if it is determined that an incoming call notification needs to be made, the incoming call notification unit 143 displays the incoming call notification by the user setting information. The incoming call notification signal is generated according to the received conditions, and the generated incoming call notification signal is transmitted to the incoming call notification target terminal 20 via the information transmitting / receiving unit 146 (step S107).

If it is determined that there is no need to perform incoming call notification, the incoming call notification processing in which the incoming call notification target terminal 20 is linked is not performed, and independent processing for the incoming call terminal 30 is performed as usual (step S106).
By performing the incoming control process as described above, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, when there is a data incoming to the incoming terminal 30 when the incoming terminal 30 is powered off, By notifying the arrival of data to the receiving terminal 30 by performing pictogram display or the like, the user can grasp in real time that the data has arrived.

(Incoming call response processing)
Next, an incoming call response process performed after the incoming call notification process shown in FIG. 5 will be described with reference to the sequence diagram shown in FIG. In this operation example, it is assumed that the calling device 40 and the receiving terminal 30 are mobile terminals, and the incoming notification target terminal 20 is a smartphone. Then, when a call is made from the calling device 40 to the receiving terminal 30, the user is working using the incoming notification target terminal 20, and the receiving terminal 30 is placed in the user's bag with the power off. Suppose that it was done.

In this operation example, the incoming call control server 10 transmits an incoming call signal to the incoming call terminal 30 in addition to sending an incoming call notification to the incoming call notification target terminal 20 in step S107 of FIG. 5 (step of FIG. 7). S108).
When the information transmission / reception unit 24 of the incoming call notification target terminal 20 receives the incoming call notification from the incoming call control server 10 (step S109), the incoming call notification application unit 21 determines whether or not to respond based on the user input from the terminal operation unit 23. (Step S110).
If it is determined that the response is possible, the incoming call notification application unit 21 transmits a notification indicating that the response is possible to the incoming call control server 10 via the information transmitting / receiving unit 24 (step S111).

When the notification that the information transmission / reception unit 15 of the incoming call control server 10 can respond is received from the incoming call notification target terminal 20, the guidance transmission unit 144 transmits the dedicated guidance to the calling device 40 via the information transmission / reception unit 15. (Step S112).
When the user takes out the receiving terminal 30 in the bag, turns on the power of the receiving terminal 30 and performs an incoming call response operation, the incoming terminal 30 transmits a response signal for the incoming call (step S113). As a result, the call line between the calling device 40 and the receiving terminal 30 is connected, and the user of the calling device 40 and the user of the receiving terminal 30 perform a call via the call line (step S114).

On the other hand, when it is determined in step S111 that the response is impossible, the incoming call notification application unit 21 of the incoming call notification target terminal 20 transmits a request signal for answering machine transfer or message transmission via the information transmission / reception unit 24 in accordance with the user operation ( Step S115).
When the information transmission / reception unit 15 of the incoming call control server 10 receives a request signal from the incoming notification target terminal 20, if the request signal represents an answering machine transfer request, the answering machine transfer unit 146 performs an answering machine transfer process, If the signal represents a message transmission request, a process of generating a message by synthesizing a voice is performed (step S116), and the information transmission / reception unit 15 receives a guidance to connect to the answering machine center or a voice synthesized message. Is transmitted to the calling-side device 40 (step S117).

  By performing the incoming call response process as described above, the user can notify the calling device 40 of the intention to make an incoming call response, and then slowly search for the incoming call terminal 30 in the cage. it can. When there is no intention to answer the incoming call, the answering machine can be transferred or a message can be transmitted to the calling device 40.

  As described above, when the incoming call control server 10 receives a data incoming call to the incoming call terminal 30 among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user, the incoming call notification target terminal 20 is set in advance as the incoming call notification target terminal 20. On the other hand, in order to notify the receiving terminal 30 that the data has been received, when the receiving terminal 30 does not have means for notifying the user of the incoming call tone, vibrator function, or the like, or when the receiving terminal 30 is turned off. Even in such a case, the user can use the incoming call notification target terminal 20 to know in real time that there has been a data incoming to the incoming terminal 30, check the content of the incoming call, and be turned off. Can be taken. Similarly, when the schedule data used by the scheduler shared by a certain group that can be used only by the receiving terminal 30 is updated, the user can know that fact in real time. Further, even when the incoming notification target terminal 20 is a personal computer having no voice incoming function and a speaker and the incoming terminal 30 is a portable terminal, as shown in FIG. 8, there is an incoming call on the screen of the personal computer. Can be displayed and an actual call can be performed on the mobile terminal. As described above, by performing the incoming notification process in cooperation with the incoming notification target terminal 20 having different performance and status from the incoming terminal 30, it is possible to improve the convenience of the user who uses a plurality of communication terminals. Can do. In addition, customer service can be improved by combining the present invention with services provided by various telecommunications carriers.

Further, since the receiving terminal is not changed, there is no problem in the management of the incoming call history and e-mail history, for example. Moreover, it is not necessary to fix the receiving terminal to one among the communication terminals used by the user.
Further, by registering the correspondence between the service unique identifier used in the Web service or the like and the terminal identifier in the terminal identifier management DB 11, the terminal identifier can be derived from the service unique identifier. Therefore, even when data is received with a unique identifier used in a service other than the mobile communication service as a destination, it is possible to perform data arrival notification to the receiving terminal 30 specified by the unique identifier. In addition, even when data is received by a service that does not have an incoming notification means such as a PULL-type application service such as e-mail, it is possible to notify the user of an incoming call.

  In addition, since the incoming call notification is performed by referring to the terminal status of the receiving terminal 30 stored in the terminal status holding DB 12, the terminal status held only in the mobile communication network is different from the simple mail transfer from the service provider. Based on this, it becomes possible to perform an incoming call notification. Furthermore, by registering the conditions for incoming notification processing in the user setting information holding DB 13 in advance, the incoming notification can be received only when the data incoming matches the desired conditions.

(Modification)
Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to such embodiments, and various modifications are possible within the scope of the technical idea described in the claims. As modifications, for example, the following can be considered.
(1) In the above-described embodiment, it has been described that the user uses two communication terminals of the incoming call notification target terminal 20 and the incoming call terminal 30. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and three or more communication terminals are used. You may do it. When three or more devices are used, one device may always be determined as an incoming communication target terminal or an incoming notification when each communication terminal becomes an incoming terminal based on the user setting information stored in the user setting information holding DB 13 The target terminal may be determined.

(2) The order of the terminal identifier derivation process in step S102, the state determination process for the receiving terminal 30 in step S103, and the user setting confirmation process in step S105 shown in FIG. 5 may be switched.
(3) As shown in FIG. 9, the incoming call notification target terminal 20 and the incoming call terminal 30 may be in different networks (access network A and access network B in the figure). Even in this case, when the calling side device 40 transmits / data transmits to the incoming call control server 10, it is possible to notify the incoming call notification target terminal 20 of the incoming call.

For example, in the communication terminal used by the user, the mobile phone uses W-CDMA with a wide cover area, and the smartphone uses a broadband Super3G or a public wireless LAN service. Is valid.
For example, if the receiving terminal 30 is a personal computer and the personal computer is outside the network area such as a public wireless LAN, the user cannot conventionally be aware of the incoming call to the personal computer. When an incoming call is noticed by an incoming call notification to the incoming call notification target terminal 20, an operation of connecting a personal computer to the network as necessary can be performed.

  As different networks, mobile communication networks (2G, 3G, S3G), Non 3GPP Access (WiMAX, I-WLAN) and the like can be considered. In addition, when the terminal 20 subject to incoming notification is located in a network managed by another business operator different from the communication business operator that has concluded the communication service contract, the communication operator and the other business are used as terminal identifiers. The user can share the ID uniquely determined with the user, and the incoming call control server 10 manages the ID, whereby the incoming call notification can be performed.

(4) As another modification, the incoming call application program stored in the incoming call terminal 30 and the incoming call notification application program stored in the incoming call notification target terminal 20 are stored in one communication terminal, and one communication An example of receiving both an incoming call and an incoming call notification at the terminal will be described. FIG. 10 shows a communication terminal 50 that receives both incoming calls and incoming call notifications.

  The communication terminal 50 can access two or more different networks, and the services that can be received by the communication terminal 50 differ depending on the network. In the example illustrated in FIG. 10, the communication terminal 50 can access the access network A and the access network B. A non-illustrated non-volatile memory of the communication terminal 50 stores an incoming call application program for receiving incoming calls for services provided only on the access network A and an incoming call notification application program for receiving incoming call notifications. When the CPU (not shown) of the communication terminal 50 executes processing according to the incoming application program, the incoming application 51 which is a function for receiving incoming services via the access network A is realized, and the CPU of the communication terminal 50 notifies the incoming call. It is assumed that an incoming call notification application 52 that is a function of receiving an incoming call notification by executing an application program is realized.

  When the communication terminal 50 receives an access network A limited service and the communication terminal 50 is out of the access network A, for example, the communication terminal 50 cannot access the access network A, and the incoming application 51 cannot receive an incoming call, but in this modification, the incoming notification unit 143 of the incoming call control server 10 transmits to the incoming notification application 52 of the communication terminal 50 via the access network B accessible by the communication terminal 50. An incoming call can be notified.

  For example, when the voice service is provided only on the access network A, the communication terminal 50 is located outside the access network A when the calling device 40 receives the voice service via the access network A. In this case, the calling side device 40 is connected to the answering machine service center, and the user blows a message from the calling side device 40 to the answering machine service center. Next, the incoming call control server 10 needs to notify the user that the message has been accumulated, but conventionally, the incoming call control server 10 has detected that the communication terminal 50 has been in the access network A. Sometimes the user is notified. On the other hand, in this modified example, if the communication terminal 50 is within the access network B, the incoming call control server 10 notifies the incoming call notification application 52 of the access network B, so that the user notices the incoming call. Is possible.

In addition, even when the communication terminal 50 is within the access network A and the incoming application 51 has successfully received the data, the incoming notification application 52 may be notified of the incoming call. This modification is effective when the incoming call application 51 does not have an incoming call notification function.
As a further development example, a user who notices an incoming call does not return to the access network A that provides voice service in order to listen to the voice mail message, but instead uses the http network to send a file of the voice mail message in the access network B. It is possible to take such measures as downloading and playing back on the terminal 50 itself.
(5) As shown in FIG. 11, in all embodiments, the originating communication network may be the same as the terminating communication network.

1 is a diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the incoming call control server which concerns on the same embodiment. (A) is a figure which shows an example of the data memorize | stored in terminal identifier management DB, (b) is a figure which shows an example of the data memorize | stored in terminal state holding | maintenance DB, (c) is user setting information holding | maintenance It is a figure which shows an example of the user setting information memorize | stored in DB. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the incoming call notification object terminal which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a sequence diagram which shows the incoming call notification process which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a figure which shows the operation example of the incoming call notification process which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a sequence diagram which shows the incoming call response process which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a data incoming call in case the incoming call notification object terminal which concerns on the embodiment is a personal computer which does not have an audio | voice incoming call function and a speaker, and an incoming call terminal is a portable terminal. It is a figure for demonstrating the case where the incoming call notification object terminal and incoming terminal which concern on a modification are in another network. It is a figure for demonstrating the case where the terminal which receives the incoming call which concerns on a modification, and the terminal which receives incoming call notification are the same. It is a figure for demonstrating the case where the communication network of the origination side which concerns on a modification is the same as the communication network of a receiving side.

Explanation of symbols

10 Incoming call control server 11 Terminal identifier management DB
12 Terminal state maintenance DB
13 User setting information holding DB
14 Incoming notification application unit 141 Incoming terminal state determination unit 142 Destination terminal identifier derivation unit 143 Incoming notification unit 144 Guidance transmission unit 145 Connection unit 146 Answering machine transfer unit 15 Information transmission / reception unit 20 Incoming notification target terminal 21 Incoming notification application unit 22 Screen Display unit 23 Terminal operation unit 24 Information transmission / reception unit 30 Incoming terminal 40 Originating device

Claims (12)

An incoming call control server that performs incoming call control when there is data incoming to any one of a plurality of communication terminals used by a user,
When there is an incoming data to a certain communication terminal among a plurality of communication terminals used by the user, the fact is notified to other predetermined communication terminals among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user. An incoming call control server comprising incoming call notification means for performing incoming call notification processing. Terminal state holding means for storing the state of each communication terminal;
When there is an incoming data to the certain communication terminal, it is determined whether or not the certain communication terminal is ready to receive data based on the state of the certain communication terminal stored in the terminal state holding means A receiving terminal state determination means,
2. The incoming call notification unit according to claim 1, wherein the incoming call notification unit performs the incoming call notification process when it is determined by the incoming terminal state determination unit that the certain communication terminal is in a state incapable of receiving data. Incoming control server. Further comprising user setting information holding means for storing user setting information representing conditions for the incoming call notification process set by the user;
The incoming call notification means is configured to receive the incoming call notification process according to a condition expressed by user setting information for the certain communication terminal stored in the user setting information holding means when there is an incoming data to the certain communication terminal. The incoming call control server according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that:   The user setting information includes a data sender, a data type, a data transmission condition, and a data transmission condition that is satisfied when an incoming data having the type is received from a communication terminal used by the data sender. 4. The incoming call control server according to claim 3, further comprising information indicating a communication terminal that should notify that there has been a data incoming call.   5. The incoming call control server according to claim 4, wherein the data transmission condition is a condition that a certain communication terminal is powered off. A terminal identifier management means for managing a terminal identifier assigned to a certain communication terminal and a service specific identifier used when a user using the certain communication terminal receives a predetermined type of communication service, in association with each other;
If there is an incoming data that includes the service unique identifier as the destination,
The destination terminal identifier deriving means for deriving the terminal identifier from the service unique identifier based on the data managed by the terminal identifier managing means, further comprising: The incoming call control server according to item. A guidance transmission means for transmitting a guidance notifying that a response is possible to a device on the caller side when a reply indicating that a response is possible is received in response to the notification of an incoming voice call by the incoming notification means;
7. A connection unit for connecting a telephone line between the calling-side device and the certain communication terminal when there is an incoming call response from the certain communication terminal. The incoming call control server according to any one of the preceding claims.   An answering machine transfer means for transferring an incoming call to an answering machine center having a recording device capable of recording a voice message to the certain communication terminal when a reply that cannot be answered to the notification of the incoming voice call by the incoming call notification means is received. The incoming call control server according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising: An incoming call control method when there is data incoming to any one of a plurality of communication terminals used by a user,
When there is an incoming data to a certain communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user, the incoming call control server sends a predetermined communication terminal among the plurality of communication terminals used by the user. And an incoming call notification step for notifying that effect. The incoming call notification means performs the incoming call notification process using a terminal identifier for uniquely identifying the other communication terminal in a communication network in which the other communication terminal is located,
9. The terminal identifier includes a common terminal identifier that can uniquely identify the other communication terminal in each of a plurality of communication networks managed by different communication carriers. The incoming call control server according to any one of the above. An incoming call control server that performs incoming call control when there is an incoming data for any of the applications that are limited in the communication network receiving the service among the multiple applications stored in the communication terminal that can access the multiple communication networks Because
Among the plurality of applications, when there is an incoming data via the predetermined communication network with respect to an application capable of receiving a service via the predetermined communication network, An incoming call control server comprising an incoming call notification means for notifying a predetermined other application via a communication network in which the other application can receive a service.   When the communication terminal is not in a state where it can access the predetermined communication network when there is an incoming data to the certain application via the predetermined communication network, The information is notified to another application that can receive a communication service from the other communication network through another communication network in an accessible state. Incoming control server.

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